Chapter 4: A memoir of a Memory

Naruto blinked slowly up at the sky, his eyelids raising only half way due to his oncoming sleepiness. Sasuke sat across the blonde staring intently at the fire; no sign of sleep was written on his features.

A sigh escaped Naruto's mouth as he now noticed how long it had been since Kakashi, who finally returned from gathering wood, and Sakura had fallen asleep. Yawning for the first time he decided that he should probably follow suit soon too.

"Go to bed already dobe." Sasuke replied noticing his team-mate's gaping yawn and closing eyes.

Naruto bit back his tongue from lashing out at Sasuke calling him a bastard, figuring it was too late at night. "Why aren't you going to bed?" he replied than instantly he mentally slapped himself at his superb comeback.

Sasuke lightly smiled thought it was hard to tell in the once again dimming fire light. "I'm not tired." He simply stated. Wiping the smile off his face he grabbed a piece of wood, broke it, than threw it into the fire.

Naruto sighed at the other's monotone reply; looking up at the blue moon, thinking.

"Brooding isn't like you loser." Sasuke stated looked at the blonde's face but not his eyes. "And I thought I told you to go to bed." He continued.

Not breaking eye contact with the moon, he opened his mouth to reply, blinking his eyelids, only to find a now blood red moon in front of his eyes. His eyes widened in sudden surprise and widened even more as he felt and heard the pulsating of his own heart.

Sasuke looked up at the blonde when he heard no reply from him. He only saw a shocked expression on his face. 'I didn't say something surprising, did I?' he questioned himself; looking closely at the blonde's face. Wait, there was something else in his eyes, fear, and…and…

Naruto screamed in agony as his covered seared and began to bleed beneath the bandages. He screamed even louder as fresh wounds appeared on his forehead and heart(1); blood trickling down his face and down to the ground.

Naruto fell to the ground as his body trembled from the immense pain. Bringing his hands to his head and his knees to his chest he let water slide down his cheeks; the voice in his head had returned.

Sasuke was fully alert once he heard that awful scream from Naruto. Sasuke quickly ran to Naruto's side to try to calm him down; that's all they wanted was an unexpected visitor at night with one person on their team having a breakdown.

"Naruto tell me what's wrong so I can get Kakashi and Sakura." He yelled over Naruto's screaming.

After his statement, Naruto's screamed died down to a whimper as he shed more tears from his closed eyes. Slowly he opened his mouth and said something but it only came out as a barely audible whisper.

"What?" asked Sasuke as he leaned his ear closer to Naruto's mouth; listening with all his strength.

"Make it stop." Naruto whispered.

"Make what stop?" Sasuke asked still trying his best to listen.

"You want the voice to stop, huh Naruto?" asked a new voice in his head, Naruto mentally and physically shivered at the voice that dripped with malice, destruction, and the joy at other's misery.

"Yes." Naruto meant to say it mentally but instead it came out as a verbal response.

"Yes what?" Sasuke asked now even more confused.

"Sasuke what's going on out here?" Sakura asked but instantly asked another question as she caught a glance at the sight of Naruto in pain. "What's wrong with Naruto?"

"That's what I'm trying to figure out." Sasuke replied annoyed at the girl's questions.

"You want the voice and the pain to go away right?" the voice asked again. Naruto stared blankly at his reflection in his mind. Finally, he slowly nodded; watching the blood from his wounds flow down his body and to the ground.

"But why?" the voice asked. "It's only trying to help you tell everyone what they have done to you. This is the pain you hide from them." It continued.

"But…"Naruto continued as he watched his reflection in a mirror in front of him lift a hand to his chest where his heart is. The image in the mirror suddenly changed to a lonely child crying, being abused and trying to find his purpose in life. "My mother hated me because I took him away." Naruto recalled the now unlocked memories of his abusive mother; he stared at his reflection once again. His heart had been broken from the memories, causing the pain only to increase. "I took father away from everyone because of the demon inside of me that only caused them to hate me." He continued bringing his arms around himself in a lonely hug. "I hate it. I just want to forget everything."

"Your friends thought, you'll forget them as well." The shadow smiled in the darkness behind Naruto. The depressed blonde was slowly becoming one with them.

Naruto watched as the mirror now showed flashes of his friends smiling faces. It only made him hug himself tighter. "They aren't really my friends, are they?" he asked the shadow.

The shadow grinned, Naruto was now completely in its control; stepping out of the shadows. The light now shown onto a young woman with snow white hair and chocolate brown eyes that somehow looked like blood red eyes at the same time. She wore a renaissance style, lilac colored dress. Two strands of her hair near her face were braided and brought behind her head where it was held by a purple ribbon. Walking up to the back of Naruto, she embraced him.

Naruto's eyes widened as visions of his friend's past, his present, and their future filled him.

"I'll grant your wish Naruto. I'll help you forget everything." She stated before lightly kissing Naruto's cheek.

Memories flashed before Naruto's eyes before fading away into black, being forgotten. Soon all the memories of Naruto's very being had come and past leaving an empty blonde.

The lady released the blonde boy and stepped back from him, smiling.

"Who are you?" the blonde boy who continued to stare forward asked.

The lady moved so that she was now in front of him; the mirror shattering behind her into thousands of pieces. Closing her eyes she leaned forward, her mouth now close to his ear as she whispered to him. After a couple of minutes she went back to her level. "And you will come when I call for you." She said looking into the slightly surprised azure eyes.

She smiled once again, leaning forward once again and pressed her soft cherry lips to blondes in a kiss.

The blonde only saw her eyes grow father away before he blacked out.

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Sasuke watched as azure eyes slowly open themselves.

"N-Naruto." He said hesitantly and quietly afraid the blonde might break out into screams again. They were now back at Konoha in the hospital. They abandoned the mission and brought an unconscious blonde, who had blacked out from the blood loss.

Blank eyes, unclouded from any emotion turned their gaze to the one who spoke. "Where am I" he asked hoarsely.

"Back at the Konoha hospital." answered a female voice. The blonde moved his eyes to see a pink carnations haired girl with emerald eyes staring at him. "Are you all right Naruto?" the female asked.

"Naruto?" the blonde asked in a monotone.

"Stop playing jokes Naruto you just woke up." The pink haired girl scolded the blonde haired boy.

"Who's he?" the blonde asked looking at her for an answer.

"Naruto! Stop it this isn't funny!" the female yelled starting to get scared.

"Who are you guys " the blonde asked quietly; his blue eyes holding no humor or mischief, they were only blank voids.

Everyone on the room which consisted of Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi, Tsunade, and Shizune's eyes went wide as they realized he wasn't lying or joking.

"Naruto, don't you know us, we've been on a team for five years now?" asked a now desperate Sakura.

The blonde slowly shook his head 'no' causing the pink carnation's haired girl to burst out into tears. Feeling slightly bad at the pitiful site of the girl before him, the blonde got up and patted her back with bandaged hand.

"Naruto, what do you remember?" asked the Godaime.

The blonde looked at the blonde female now figuring out that his name was must be Naruto since that's what everyone called him. He stood silently for a moment before stating in a semi cheery voice, "Master will call me when she wants me."

Tsunade's eyes went wide as Naruto mentioned the word master. Whoever this master of his was, she did something to his memory. "Naruto, did you're master do something, anything, to your memory?" she asked. Naruto nodded his head at her question. "Why?" she asked disbelievingly.

Naruto thought about it for a moment, sitting back on the bed than answering, "Because I asked her. That's the last thing I recall." He stated simply.

Everyone's eye opened even wider if that is even possible at this point as they found out the truth. "Why did you ask her." Asked Tsunade, desperate to find out answers.

"I don't know, I just did I guess." Naruto replied as he smiles; swinging his legs back and forth like a kid.

"Naruto, what is her name?" Tsunade yelled only to get an accusing finger from Naruto.

"You're so rude lady, please be more respectful towards Master." He replied child-like.

Tsunade growled than asked again controlling her anger. "What's your master's name Naruto?"

"You really want to know?" the blonde boy asked smiling again.

Tsunade only nodded her head but glared, not liking the new Naruto's child-like antics. Tsunade wouldn't believe how wrong she was on his new personality.

"Than I'll tell you." He replied as his eyes grew emotionless and his voice grew serious. Naruto quickly recalled what his master had whispered in his ear than replayed it back to the strangers.

"After my memory was erased, my master showed me a vision of the future." He paused for a moment than continued. "I saw a beast come out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads; on it horns were ten diadems, and on its heads blasphemous names. The beast I saw was like a leopard, but it had feet like a bear's and its mouth was like the mouth of a lion. To it the dragon gave its own power and throne, along with great authority. I saw that one of its head seemed to have been mortally wounded, but this mortal wound was healed. Fascinated, the whole world followed after the beast. They also worshiped the beast and said "Who can compare with the beast or who can fight against it?" The beast was given a mouth uttering proud boasts and blasphemies, and it was given authority to act for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling and those who dwell in heaven. It was also allowed to wage war against the holy ones and conquer them, and it was granted authority over every tribe, people, tongue and nation. All the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, all whose names were not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life, which belongs to the lamb who was slain.

Whoever has ears ought to hear these words

Anyone destined for captivity goes into captivity

Anyone destined to be slain by the sword

Shall be slain by the sword

Such is the faithful endurance of the holy ones.

Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb's but spoke like a dragon. It wielded all the authority of the first beast in its sight and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound had been healed. It preformed great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of everyone. It deceived the inhabitants of the earth with the signs it was allowed to perform in the sight of the first beast, telling them to make an image for the beast who had been wounded by the sword and revived. It was then permitted to breathe life into the beast's image, so that the beast's image could speak and could have anyone who did worship it put to death. It forced al the people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to be given a stamped image on their right hands or their foreheads, so that no one could buy or sell except one who had the stamped image of the beast's name or the number that stood for its name." (Revelation 13: 1-17)

Naruto starred unaffected by the story at the scared faces of the others around him. Finally one of them, the one with silver hair spoke up.

"Naruto that still doesn't tell us your master's name. That is only a story." Kakashi stated.

Joy filled Naruto's eyes as he smiled at the silver hair masked male.

"Be patient I was getting there." He replied, starting to swing his legs back and forth again, yet he stayed silent.

"Well?" asked a slightly annoyed Sasuke.

"So none of you can figure it out, I gave you the information." The blonde laughed at their stupidity.

The group only looked at him puzzled.

"Wisdom is needed here; one who understands can calculate the number of the beast, for it is a number that stands for a person. Her (2) number is six hundred and sixty-six." (Revelation 13:18)

(1)in stigmata you get cuts on your body where Christ had his wounds

(2)in the bible it says his but in my story the master is a girl so I sorta changed it

(a/n…please read and review!)